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Letters .Patent No. 76,1416, dated.' lil-arch 31, 1868.

TO ALLWHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Beit known that I, JAMES W. BARNUM, oi' the city of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented a certain new, useful, and improved device for fastening thc cndsot' wire rope or wire, as the case may be, when the same iS used for banding bales of cotton or other substance; and I do hereby declare the following to be` a full, clear, -and exact descriptionof the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a. part of this specification, in which- Figure 1,`a perspective view, in which is shown the mode of fastening the device to the ends of a wire-rope band, and thus of securing the said ends together; and

Figure 2 is aside view ofthe device.

Figure 3, a top view ofthe device as when it is disconnected from a band. i

My invention looks tothe takingiup of the slack of the band, and to securing the ends together without a key or other supplementary device; and it consists of a cylinder about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, that is provided with projecting plates at each of its ends, the projection being in the'samc plane, but in opposite directions, and extending an inch and a; ham-more or less, from the perimeter ofthe cylinder, which plates are notched upon their upper edges, and near their 'outer ends, in order that when the slack is taken up, the fastening muy be established, by slipping the wire rope in the same, as shown on the drawings at lig. 2.

An obvious modication of my device would beto turn the notched ends of the two projecting arms at right angles to the line of the direction of the said arms, or in such a manner as to make them parallel to thc cylinders, es is clearly shown at Figure 4'.

The device may be made of cast or malleable iron. l

On the drawings, the cylinder is marked A, the projecting plates B B', and the notches C C.

Theroperation of my invention in actual practice is: The wirerope being first put around the bale, and cut.

*to a proper length to encircle the lcylinder with the ends of the same, the coil being in opposite directions as to he .two ends, and then to turn or roll the device until all the slack ofthe hand has been taken up. W hen this has been done, the two -parts on the reverse sides or" the device on which the tension bears, are slipped intol the notches, and the fastening is thus secured.

Having thus described my' invention, as wellj as its mode ot' application or operation, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a new article of manufacture, is-

The cylinder A, when lprovidedv 'with the two projecting plates B B', in which are cut the'notfchcs C, as

herein described, for the purpose set forth. A f

JAMES W. BARNUM.

Witnesses:

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